Theodore Cleaver, or Beaver as he was known by everyone,hated funerals.
The fact that they were depressing.
The fact that the mood was always somber.
The fact that everyone was upset.
The fact that they meant that you were saying goodbye to someone forever
Someone you know, someone you care about, someone you love.
And that was exactly what was happening that very day.
Beaver stood sadly at the tombstones at the cemetery.
The three stones were that of members of his family.

The first headstone read.

Warden "Ward" Cleaver
1910-1982
Beloved Brother, Husband, Father and Grandfather.

The headstone to the right had

June Cleaver
1915-2010
Beloved Wife, Mother, Grandmother and Great-Grandmother

And the newly placed last headstone read

Wallace "Wally" Cleaver
1945-2022
Beloved Brother, Husband, Father and Grandfather

Beaver couldn't believe it.
His brother Wally, who like his parents was now gone.
Taken by illness.
Cancer to be exact.
Wally had already beaten it twice.
First prostate, then gallbladder, and lastly liver.
While Wally was able to combat the first two with minor surgeries, followed by some chemo threapy and radiation treatments.
The third time however was more complicated.
At first Wally tried the chemo and radiation, in hopes that it could shrink the cancer, making it easier for the doctors to remove the rest with surgery.
However, the treatments had no effects on the cancer.
Wally and his wife Mary Ellen thought of giving immunothreapy a try, at the advise of the doctor.
But after only a few sessions, Wally felt sicker and weaker from it.
In the end, he along with the doctors decided to stop treatment all together, because there was nothing more to do.
The cancer was just too strong.
Beaver felt like he had been hit by a truck when Wally told him the news.
How could it be?
How was it possible?
It didn't make scense.
It wasn't fair.
Wally took care of himself.
Never drank or smoked.
Exercised nearly everyday.
Though Wally's downfall was the occasionally bowl of ice cream, that he was able controlled if not, then Mary Ellen would.
Thankfully, being a lawyer, Wally had all his affairs in order, so that his wife, kids and grandchildren wouldn't have to worry or become overwhelmed.
Wally also took care of the affairs of his and Beaver's parents, as well as a lot of their friends.
Beaver knew he didn't do well with funerals, but Wally did.
How he wished his brother was here.
That very day still plays out in Beaver's head.
Standing by his brother's bedside, along with Mary Ellen, the children and grandchildren they shared, along with Beaver and his own family, and the hospice nurse who took care of Wally during his final days to say their good-byes.

"Beaver," a soft female voice said to Beaver.
He then felt a hand on his shoulder.
Beaver turned around, and standing before him was his wife Pamela.
"Beaver.
It's time to get inside," said Pamela.
Meaning, Wally's funeral service was about to begin.
It seems Beaver has been to more funerals over the last few years.
Not just his family, and other eldery relativies, but friends as well.
Several classmates of his and Wally's passed before them.
Such in 2013 when Clarence "Lumpy" Rutherford, a friend of Wally's and Beaver's, who was his business partner, died of an unexpected heart attack one day after his 71st birthday, and in 2020 Eddie Haskell, Wally's life-long best friend, who passed from from a pulmenary disease.
Beaver and Pamela entered the church, and took their seats at a nearby pew in the front row with their family, but not before checking on Mary Ellen, the kids and grandchildren that she shared with Wally.

Sitting on Beaver's side were his sons, the children from his first marriage to his ex-wife Kimberly.
Everyone was against that wedding from the start.
Ward, June, and especially Wally tried to talk Beaver out of getting married to that woman.
But Beaver was young and love, so the wedding was on.
Beaver was indeed in love and he thought Kimberly felt the same way, or so he thought.
That is until she filed for divorce, moved to Italy, giving Beaver fully custody of the kids, two boys, Ward, but went by his nickname Kip, and Oliver.
Beaver always has said that the only good thing that came out of that marriage were his boys, who he loved and would do anything for them.
Though Kimberly would return to visit, with her and Beaver falling for each other again, and plans for them get re-married.
But, she had fell in love with a count back in Italy, who traveled to America to win her back.
Kimberly once again dumped on Beaver and their kids, and headed back with her lover.
After that, while Beaver was able to move on, with sweet, warm and good-hearted Pamela, who was the opposite of cold, distant, and vain Kimberly.
In fact, after what Kimberly had done at the re-marriage, to their family, Kip and Oliver wanted nothing to do with her.
They avoid any trips to Italy to see her, getting to know their step-dad, step-siblings, and half-siblings.
However, a few years ago when Kimberly became gravely ill, and despite what she had done to him and their sons, Beaver told his Kip and Oliver to go visit their mother, which they did, only when they talked their father into going with them
The four were able to get some closure from what happened.
Kimberly passed away a month after the visit.
Kip and Oliver, and Beaver returned to Italy one last time to attend the funeral.

Sitting next to Beaver were the sons he had with Kimberly.
Kip, with his wife Chealsea and their three children.
Sons Ward (Kip) Jr., Mackienze, and daughter Courtney.
And Oliver with his wife Lucy and their six children.
Two biological a son named Theodore or Teddy for short and daughter Mary.
Plus two adopted sons Max and Jonathan and two adopted daughters Suzie and Lucy.
Pamela sat next to the twin daughters she shared with Beaver.
Samantha June with her husband Christopher and their two children.
Twin daughters Gabby and Gracie.
Plus, the family has a third baby on the way.
And Laura with her husband Jason and their two children.
Son William and daughter Charlotte.

Meanwhile, on the other side of the church, sitting in the front row was Wally's family.
Sitting on Mary Ellen's left was daughter Kelly with her husband Douglas, formerly known as "Duffy" with their three children.
Twin sons Douglas Jr., and Daniel and daughter Katie.
Sitting on Mary Ellen's right was son Kevin, with his wife Jenna and their four children.
Two biological sons named Kevin Jr. and Jeremy.
And a set of feternal twins, a boy and girl named Randy and Rachael, who were adopted in infancy, when their parents, Jenna's best friend since childhood and her husband were killed in a car crash.
Though adopted, Wally showed the same amount of love to them as his biological grandchildren.
In fact, the photo memorial that was made by a friend of Mary Ellen's for the service displayed dozens of pictures of Wally with his family, along with pictures from his youth, school days and with his friends.
In between a picture of him as a preteen with Beaver and his parents and of him on his wedding to Mary Ellen was a photo of Wally with all of his family, Mary Ellen, who was his teenage sweetheart, his bride, the love of his life, along with their children and grandchildren, Beaver and his family, which was taken shortly before Wally had gotten seriously ill, at his last birthday party.

Also at the service, that was shortly about to start were Gertrue "Gert" Haskell, widow of Eddie Haskell with the sons they had together Freddie and Eddie Jr. or "Bomber" as everyone calls him.
Freddie sat to "Gert's" left with his wife Claudia and their three children
Sons Freddie Jr., and Adam, and daughter Alley.
While to "Gert's " right sat Bomber with his wife Ginny and their four children.
Sons Edward the third or Eddie, and Marcus, and daughters Morgan and Stephanie.
In the same row as the Haskell's was Jessica Jane, or "JJ" Rutherford-Pascal, daughter to "Lumpy" and best friend to Kelly, who sat with her husband Greg and their two children.
Son Mica and daughter Paige.

In the middle of the church's main floor was a plain wooden coffin, that was topped with flowers and notes.
It was Wally's choice.
Nothing to fancy.
At that moment, the sound of an organ played and that's when the church's pastor appeared.